Action #033

Recycle your books

 
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They dreamt up a scheme in Amsterdam a few years ago, whereby white bicycles were provided for free. After you'd finished your ride you'd leave the bike in the street for someone else to use. Unfortunately this brilliant plan for recycling bikes flopped for two reasons. One, criminals exist. And two, coloured paint exists.

A better version might be to ask people to recycle their books. Give them to a charity shop, your local library or just leave them lying on a park bench.

 

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  • Helga Hansen Helga Hansen did this action

    Pass the book!

    I have just set up a blog today, in which I hope to record the adventures of all the books that I will be passing on in the days, weeks and months to come.

    Basically, I will be releasing (mostly) paperback books into the big wide world, and asking their new owners to visit my blog and let me know how they came across the book, and what they are planning to do with the book next. Hopefully, people will enter into the spirit of things. I know that bookcrossings.com run a similar scheme, but I wanted to do something a little more personal.

    Please visit http://thebookdoesn'tstophere.blogspot.com and see how I am getting on.     14 August 2010, 13:11
  • St Saviour's CE Junior School St Saviour's CE Junior School and friends did this action and got 2 people to do it too

    Recycling books

    We had 3 same books so i recycled 1 book and my brother recyled the same book. So know we only have 1 copy of it. 25 June 2010, 08:32
  • Kristin Kristin did this action

    Second Hand Book Shop and Bookcrossing.

    First of all, I donate most of the books at a local second hand book shop. The books which the book shop isn't interested in, I register at bookcrossing.com . That way the books I'm not interested in having anymore can find some new readers.

     25 May 2010, 12:07
  • shmile!! shmile!! did this action

    RECYCLING BOOKS IS MY THING

    I read lots of books and when I've read one I normally leave it for ages. Some of them get boring or I get too old to read them anymore and then I recycle them! There's a shop thing at my local station where you bring in a book and take one away! =] 23 April 2010, 21:42
  • Ahmad Ahmad and friends did this action and got 3 people to do it too

    doing

    I Give them to my local library 31 March 2010, 20:33
  • Katie Katie did this action

    Bookcrossing

    Bookcrossing is a great way to do this! 15 March 2010, 20:27
  • .Giac. .Giac. did this action

    Recycling Books

    I went through my bookshelf at home, all the really tatty books i recycled, and the books which i no longer read, i took to the charity shop in my local town. 10 March 2010, 10:15
  • .Giac. .Giac. did this action

    Recycling Books

    I went through my bookshelf at home, all the really tatty books i recycled, and the books which i no longer read, i took to the charity shop in my local town. 10 March 2010, 10:14
  • Rosaura Rosaura did this action

    Bookcrossing

    I left free two books with the Bookcrossing system, but I haven't returned to know anything about them. Sniff, sniff... I hope they still alive and being readed! 08 March 2010, 12:05
  • Lottemia Lottemia and friends did this action and got 2 people to do it too

    read, register, release

    check out www.bookcrossing.com for more fun while doing this!
    I've been a member for more than 3 years now- it's free and such a lot of fun.     07 March 2010, 13:04
  • Oscar Wang Oscar Wang did this action

    A difficult decision

    Trying to be a minimalist, I, a bookworm, made a difficult decision to give all my books away last year. I gave about 300 books to my friends and donated a small part of them to local library. From then on, I borrowed books from Library or just read them in bookstore. 24 February 2010, 06:42
  • Les Mazures Les Mazures did this action

    A second life for books

    we kept some of our unwanted books so our guests can enjoy them in the guestrooms. 04 February 2010, 14:13
  • Les Mazures Les Mazures did this action

    Our move

    While putting the books on the shelf after our move we put away in boxes the unwanted books. They will go to charities and second hand bookshops. 04 February 2010, 14:12
  • Courtney McIntyre did this action

    Just because I'm not reading them...

    ...doesn't mean someone else won't love them. Every few months I go through my bookshelves (around 1200 books live with me currently) and cull out ones I'm not going to read, haven't touched in years, etc. They go to the used book stores - those that don't get accept there after a few rounds go to my local library. 03 December 2009, 12:43
  • Jessica Wijdeveld Jessica Wijdeveld did this action

    bookcrossing?

    "Give them to a charity shops, or just leave them on a park bench. It's called book crossing and you can find out more below."
    not aware of the fact what happens to most of the books from www.bookcrossing.com ? and yeah, for me until some months ago that would be www.bookcrossing.nl =P     01 November 2009, 23:47
  • Trine Andreassen did this action

    Book Club

    We've got quite a little book club at work. We agree on who is buying which books and then we take turns reading them. 15 October 2009, 08:47
  • Nick Stanhope Nick Stanhope did this action

    My fave book

    Gave it to Eugenie and she likes it too.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Risk-Science-Politics-Dan-Gardner/dp/0753515539/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254403488&sr=8-3     01 October 2009, 13:27
  • Damian Denman Damian Denman did this action

    Recycle your books

    We have all done this at the WAWWD workday.
    xoxo     01 July 2009, 21:37
  • koratheexplora koratheexplora did this action

    You need to include bookmooch

    www.bookmooch.com is a great way to recycle books! Not only do you give books you aren't using away but you also recieve the new books that you might have bought. Since you have made less purchases it is almost skipping a step because the book was already recycled once. 29 November 2008, 17:51
  • mikang mikang did this action

    Recycle Magazines


    When I'm done reading all of my magazines I take them to nursing homes. My grandma was in a nursing home before she passed away and she was always fussing about not having any magazines to read. After her death I started taking all the magazines I've read and the ones that my husband and son have read to the local nursing home. The women enjoy all the cooking and home magazines and the men enjoy the car, fishing and hunting magazines. When I take the next batch of magazines in the woman that is over the nursing home gives me the magazines that have been read so I can take them to be recycled.     30 July 2008, 06:15
  • mimi mimi did this action

    donating books


    Another place that might take books is your local hospital. A lot of them have libraries that depend on donated books, and having been in hospital a few times myself, I know how boring it can be when you're getting better but you're not quite well enough to go home yet, so a bit of distraction or entertainment is really welcome.     24 July 2008, 05:33
  • Zelda O'Flannery Zelda O'Flannery did this action

    Donating Books


    I recently put all of our excess books to good use. I donated them to our local library. The library has periodic sales of discarded and donated books to raise money for equipment and new books.

    The purchaser also gets a great deal on a gently used book.     23 July 2008, 11:31
  • momaflynn momaflynn did this action

    Used Books


    I would like to find a way to send used books that are in good condition, to either schools or libraries that can not afford to purchase books on their own. Or libraries that have been damaged and need to replace collections, or have little funds available to purchase books on their own     22 July 2008, 17:40

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